Tidewater Logistics

What Tidewater Logistics does

Tidewater Logistics is a specialized logistics services company serving the oil and gas industry, with a focus on the frac sand market. The company operates five transloading and storage facilities spanning three major U.S. shale basins — the Permian Basin (San Angelo and Big Lake, Texas), the Eagle Ford Basin, and the Appalachian Basin (Steubenville, Ohio; Allenport, Pennsylvania; and Fairmont, West Virginia). Its service portfolio includes terminal operations, terminal consulting and design, turnkey operational solutions, full supply chain management, last-mile logistics, and direct/bulk storage transloading. Customers are oil and gas enterprises requiring custom multi-modal supply chain solutions, with typical deployment lead times of 4–6 weeks.

The company's core technology is a cloud-based virtual management system built from the inside-out rather than retrofitted, providing real-time tracking of all inbound rail and outbound truck traffic from a centralized 24/7/365 Operations Center in Fort Worth, Texas. A customer-facing web portal allows multi-user access for shipment tracking, customizable reporting for inventory/operations/accounting, and BOL downloads. Multi-modal transloading capabilities combine barge and rail access through Norfolk Southern, Texas Pacifico, and the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway.

Tidewater operates a direct B2B enterprise sales model with quote-based, transaction-fee pricing for terminal operations and supply chain services. Revenue is generated through per-ton or per-unit transloading fees, storage charges, and integrated supply chain management contracts. As of June 2026, the company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FTAI Infrastructure Inc. (FIP), having been acquired for approximately $45 million in cash, with FIP guiding to roughly $9 million of Adjusted EBITDA from Tidewater over the next twelve months.

Name

Tidewater Logistics

Legal name

Tidewater Logistics

Website

https://tidewater-logistics.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tidewater Logistics is a specialized frac sand and oil & gas logistics company operating five rail and barge transloading facilities across the Permian, Eagle Ford, and Appalachian basins, providing turnkey terminal operations, supply chain management, and real-time shipment tracking for enterprise energy customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Fort Worth

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Logistics and Transloading Services: Barge and rail transloading services for frac sand and industrial markets. Revenue generated from terminal operations, last mile logistics, direct/bulk storage transloading, and full supply chain management services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Tidewater Logistics provides specialized logistics and operational services for the frac sand and industrial markets serving oil and gas customers. Core offerings include barge and rail transloading, terminal operations, last-mile logistics, direct and bulk storage transloading, terminal consulting and design, and full supply chain management across five facilities in three major U.S. basins.

Product overview

Tidewater Logistics offers a unified suite of logistics services rather than a modular product platform. The core offering encompasses terminal operations, terminal consulting and design, turnkey operational solutions, full supply chain management, last mile logistics, and direct/bulk storage transloading — all focused on serving the frac sand and industrial markets in the oil and gas industry. Supporting technology includes a cloud-based real-time tracking system and customer web portal. The company operates five facilities across three major basins (Permian Basin, Eagle Ford Basin, and Appalachian Basin), with a typical customer startup time of 4-6 weeks.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Terminal Operations Core transloading and terminal operations services for frac sand and industrial logistics, including barge and rail transloading capabilities across Tidewater's five facilities in three major basins.
• Terminal Consulting and Design Expert consulting and facility design services for logistics operations in the frac sand and industrial markets, helping customers plan and configure terminal infrastructure.
• Operation Turn Key Solutions Comprehensive turnkey operational solutions for logistics deployment with a typical customer startup time of 4-6 weeks, allowing customers to enter markets quickly with fully operational infrastructure.
• Full Supply Chain Management End-to-end supply chain management services for the frac sand and industrial markets spanning multiple basins, integrating inbound rail, transloading, storage, and outbound logistics.
• Last Mile Logistics Final delivery and distribution services that complete the supply chain from Tidewater's facilities to end destinations for frac sand and industrial material customers.
• Direct & Bulk Storage Transloading Transloading services for direct shipments and bulk storage operations supporting frac sand logistics, with multi-modal capabilities combining barge and rail transloading.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4-6 week typical customer startup time
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Smart Sand: Frac sand supplier with owned terminal and logistics infrastructure serving oilfield customers. Overlapping supply-chain-led business model and customer base in the oil & gas vertical.
• U.S. Silica Holdings: Large-scale frac sand and industrial minerals producer with an extensive terminal and logistics network. Competes with Tidewater for proppant transloading volumes and shares the same E&P customer base.
• ProFrac Services: Vertically integrated frac sand and wellsite logistics provider serving the same oil & gas customers across major US basins. Closest publicly traded comparable given overlapping multi-basin terminal network and proppant logistics model.
• Atlas Energy Solutions: Permian-focused frac sand producer and integrated logistics operator (formerly Atlas Sand). Directly comparable transloading and last-mile proppant delivery model to Tidewater's Permian facilities.
• Watco Companies: Private rail-based logistics operator owning short-line railroads and transloading terminals. Comparable multi-modal terminal/transloading model serving industrial and energy customers.
• Savage Services: Privately held multi-modal transloading and logistics company operating rail, truck, and barge terminals across the US. Closest pure-play transloading peer given similar barge+rail operating model.

Broad incumbents

• Genesis Energy: US midstream operator with terminal, storage, and pipeline infrastructure including industrial-sand handling. Comparable in transloading and terminal-operations capability but at much larger scale and across broader commodities.
• Halliburton: Global integrated oilfield services giant that internally handles significant proppant logistics and sand-handling operations. Overlaps with Tidewater at the oil & gas customer level but as part of a much wider services portfolio.

Regional players

• Source Energy Services: Canadian frac sand transloading and logistics company serving the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Directly comparable service offering but operates in a different geography (Canada vs. US).
• Steel Reef Infrastructure: Canadian midstream/barge transloading and storage infrastructure operator. Closest peer for Tidewater's barge transloading capability, but focused on Canadian markets rather than US shale basins.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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